Highlights Archive

There are very few Chelsea fans that will be sorry to see the back of Rafa Benitez at the end of this season, but his tenure here has not been a complete disaster. Rafa has brought the club to the final of the Europa League – navigated a truly horrendous fixture schedule that has seen

Some of Chelsea’s English players and Jermain Defoe tried their hand at keeping a tennis ball up for as long as possible, and failed! But had fun in the process. Ashley Cole, Ryan Bertrand, Gary Cahill, Defoe and comic TV host Colin Murray all have a go. Who do you think prevails? After much trash

Birmingham had a fantastic home record of just one defeat in 23 games until Arsenal came to visit last night. The Gunners played some excellent football to destroy their opponents 3-0 and are certainly looking like genuine title contenders. Robin Van Persie scored the frst with an excellent, if disputable, free-kick, and when Sami Nasri

Chelsea have finally broken their run of six Premier League games without a win, and find themselves only three points behind the league leaders again. Drogba and Malouda yet again teamed up for the goal and Carlo Ancelotti was asked after the game if he was feeling relieved. He said: “Obviously, yes,I think it was

Arsenal had another chance to join Man City and Man Utd at the top of the Premiership table last night, but somehow managed to concede a goal in the dying minutes against a Wigan side that was reduced to ten men shortly before the equalizer. The Arsenal blogs are slating Arsene Wenger this morning for

Manchester United went two points clear at the top of the Premier League after Ji-sung Parks 41st minute goal gave Alex Ferguson’s side a 1-0 victory in the high-stakes game with Arsenal at Old Trafford on Monday. United was the better side throughout and would have won by a more handsome margin had Wayne Rooney

Chelsea went to White Hart Lane without a win in five years, and Didier Drogba blew his chance to end that run when he missed a penalty in added time, after he had scored the equaliser in the second half. But at least the Blues were a lot more impressive than in recent weeks, and

Chelsea’s disastrous run of results since Ray Wilkins left has no sign of ending as they lost to Marseille last night. Chelsea had already topped the Group but they needed a confidence booster ahead of three difficult Premier League games coming up. Ancelotti agreed the team were still not at their best. “Not 100 per

Arsenal needed to win to make sure of qualification to the knockout stages of the Champions League, but with 20 minutes to go they were still only drawing against a team that hadn’t won any points at all in the group games. Arsene Wenger says he wasn’t unduly nervous at that point. “I was never

Chelsea are playing absolute rubbish lately, but they had a great chance to put all that behind them in the home game against Everton. But a 1-0 lead thanks to a penalty was not enough as Jermain Beckford got an equaliser in the last ten minutes. Carlo Ancelotti was not happy after the game: “Of